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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate and the vaccine wars - "'Every piece of legitimate evidence we have suggests that the causes of autism are present in utero,' said David Mandell, director of the Penn Center for Mental Health at the University of Pennsylvania, in an email. 'To the extent that environmental factors are causative, they likely interact with genetic risk factors in the womb.'
"Of course, even if a link to air pollution is not yet proved, that does not mean it can be ruled out. 'It’s hard to disagree with the opinion that exposure to neurotoxins and air pollution is bad for our health and that we should be doing more to protect our environment and prevent these exposures,' Maureen Durkin, chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in an email. 'Credible research into the causal links of these exposures to autism specifically is difficult to do but should be done and critically evaluated to inform environmental policies.'
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"Fears about a link between autism and vaccines started in 1998 after the publication of a genuine hoax — the Wakefield study, in the journal Lancet. Based on a supposedly random sample of 12 children, now-discredited anti-vaccine activist and former physician Andrew Wakefield suggested that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine led to gastrointestinal symptoms, which in turn put harmful proteins in the bloodstream that resulted in autism.
"Dozens of studies followed, including one that studied 1.8 million children over 14 years, all of which showed there was no link. Eventually, it was revealed that Wakefield had received secret payments from a lawyer seeking to sue MMR manufacturers and who supplied some of the patients, had filed a patent application for his own measles vaccine, and had misrepresented or altered medical histories of the 12 patients. In 2010, the article was retracted and Wakefield lost his medical license.
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"'This is fearmongering,' Mandell said, noting that Wakefield first said autism was the result of the MMR vaccine and no link was found. Then 'RFK Jr. said that the thimerosal in vaccines caused autism. Then thimerosal was removed from vaccines, with no change in increasing rates of diagnosis. … Then they said that it was the number of vaccines or the timing of the vaccines.'"
